It is just as important to have analyze the material closely, as it is to interact creatively with the literature. Keep all your analyses, usually three, in one document and upload to FILES. We will have frequent discussions in the listserv about the books, the analyses, and related topics.The point of alter ego monologues is to allow students to enter another life subjectively as well as objectively, and to explore a perspective and culture different from their own. Meatspace Sessions will consist of creative role playing based on monologues you write in your character's voice, oral presentations on each of the authors, viewing of pertinent audio-visual material, and discussion and lectures on cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary issues related to the global literature.from Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Loves Captives translated by Naomi Lazard While I will lecture on all material, your work need only include an in-depth analysis of five works of your choice, although you should acquire and peruse all books to be further studied at a later time. Prepare 2-3 project proposals with list of five books. If you have to miss a class, check SYLLABUS and OUTLINE as well as printed lectures, and email class listserv for any other problems.Summer 2007 Breakdown May 14: Introduction to theme, close textual analysis, and terror-criticism, a combination of formalist, historical, eco-, liminal, techno-criticism. No one expects you to be perfect but you must write and read, and then ask questions if you don't understand. We will analyze dramatic structure and show how Aristotle's Poetics has been transformed with twentieth century organic drama, screenwriting, ordinary world/special world paradigms and other innovative structures. Literature and Food, Literature and Sex/Love, Literature and Violence/Terrorism, Literature and Politics, Literature and Religion, Literature and Science, Literature and Business, Literature and Health, Literature and Sickness, Literature and the Environment Literature and Life HYBRID COURSE We will analyze different kinds of narrative, comparing Arabic with British, American, Chinese, Iranian, Russian, Turkish, Greek and French, looking at cyclical, pass-the-ball, superimposed, step narratives, interior monologues, stream of consciousness, American straightforward plainspeak, multiple narrators, shifting points of view and time.Black Water is both a personal and stylistic meditation on terror as well as an indirect indictment of the terror a powerful political leader has over an innocent civilian.Because one objective of fiction/drama is to create a combustive drama for the reader's catharsis, literature and terrorism are really competing with each other.
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